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Salt exploitation, communication routes and territory during the Iron Age around the Cabriel river valley
2020
La sal era un recurso fundamental en la economía de las sociedades antiguas y cada vez tenemos más datos sobre su aprovechamiento y explotación durante la Edad del Hierro en ámbito peninsular. La comarca de Requena-Utiel, en el interior de la provincia de Valencia, presenta la mayor abundancia de salinas continentales históricas del territorio valenciano. Por otro lado, en La Manchuela conquense se localiza la importante mina de sal de Minglanilla-La Pesquera. El hallazgo de material arqueológico ibérico en algunas de estas explotaciones sirve como punto de partida para analizar sus características y ver cómo pudieron quedar integradas en el patrón de asentamiento, así como en una densa red…
Bryophyte diversity in semi-natural grasslands : the effects of habitat quantity and quality
2015
Edeltäneiden vuosisatojen maatalouskäytännöt loivat elinympäristöjä, joihin tänä päivänä viitataan perinnebiotooppeina. Siirtymä moderniin maatalouteen on muiden maankäytön muutosten ohella vähentänyt näitä biologisesti, kulttuurisesti ja sosiaalisesti arvokkaita elinympäristöjä murto-osaan entisestä. Perinnebiotoopeille tyypillinen avoimuus, vähäravinteisuus ja säännölliset häiriöt tekevät niistä biologisesti monimuotoisia elinympäristöjä. Perinnebiotooppien pinta-alan pienenemisen ja pirstoutumisen seurauksena on ollut useiden lajien uhanalaistuminen. Jäljellä olevien perinnebiotooppien laatua uhkaa etenkin hoidon riittämättömyys. Sammalet ovat kooltaan pieniä ja ekologialtaan riippuvaisi…
Towards a framework for assessment and management of cumulative human impacts on marine food webs
2015
Effective ecosystem-based management requires understanding ecosystem responses to multiple human threats, rather than focusing on single threats. To understand ecosystem responses to anthropogenic threats holistically, it is necessary to know how threats affect different components within ecosystems and ultimately alter ecosystem functioning. We used a case study of a Mediterranean seagrass (Posidonia oceanica) food web and expert knowledge elicitation in an application of the initial steps of a framework for assessment of cumulative human impacts on food webs. We produced a conceptual seagrass food web model, determined the main trophic relationships, identified the main threats to the fo…
The Role of Excited Oxygen Molecules in the Formation of the Secondary Ozone Layer at 87 to 97 km
2018
The secondary ozone layer is located at elevations of 87 to 97 km in the upper mesosphere – lower thermosphere. It overlaps with the ionospheric D-layer. Daytime intensive UV radiation is dissociating O2 molecules to O atoms and photoexcitating O2 molecules up to 11.07eV level. Ozone photolysis between the wavelengths of 118.7–121.6 nm produces three oxygen atoms from one ozone molecule. Collision reactions of O2(B3 Σu —) and O2(X3 Σg —, υ≥26) with O2(X3 Σg —, υ=0) produce additional oxygen atoms. The number of oxygen atoms is maintained at such a high level that a small but significant ozone concentration survives. UV radiation weakens radically during the night. The number of O atoms show…
Arheoloģija Baltijā 21. gs. sākumā: jaunākie pētījumi, aktuālās diskusijas un mūsdienu izaicinājumi: referātu kopsavilkumi, 2022. gada 18. februārī L…
2022
Jau divas desmitgades Latvijas Universitātes (LU) starptautiskās zinātniskās konferences ietvaros katru otro gadu norisinās Arheoloģijas sekcija, ko rīko LU Vēstures un filozofijas fakultāte. Pirmoreiz šāda sekcija tika rīkota LU 61. zinātniskajā konferencē 2003. gada 10. februārī. Turpinot iesākto tradīciju, arī 2022. gada 18. februārī LU 80. starptautiskās konferences ietvaros Vēstures un filozofijas fakultātes Vēstures un arheoloģijas nodaļa organizēja arheoloģijas problemātikai veltītu sekciju, kurā tika aplūkotas daudzveidīgās un aktuālās mūsdienu arheoloģijas attīstības tendences Latvijā un Eiropā. Daļa konferences referātu pievērsās dabaszinātņu un tās pētniecisko metožu lomai arheol…
Effets du bruit marin sur le changement des poissons sparidés juvéniles entre les espèces et les stades de développement
2023
International audience; Marine noise is an emerging pollutant inducing a variety of negative impacts on many animal taxa, including fish. Fish population persistence and dynamics rely on the supply of early life stages, which are often very sensitive to disturbance. Impacts of marine noise pollution (MNP) on juvenile fish have rarely been investigated in temperate regions. This is particularly true for the Mediterranean Sea, which is considered as an MNP hotspot due to intensive maritime traffic. In this study, we investigate the relationship between MNP related to boat traffic and (i) assemblage structure and (ii) the density of juvenile fishes (post-settlers at different stages) belonging…
Beware of contagion!
2003
Landscape ecology starts from the assumption that diversity and spatial arrangement of ecosystem mosaics has ecological implications and tries to understand the interactions between diversity and structure of large spatially heterogeneous areas and its ecological functions. This approach implies effective use of earth observation techniques and geographic information systems, enabling a global view of the landscape mosaics. Consequently, a large number of indices has been used to quantify the structure of categorical maps as a surrogate of actual landscapes and correlate them to ecological processes. In particular, the entropy-based contagion index has been extensively used to summarize the…
Dahrsa-Kallenders, ar Peelikkumu no ihsahm derrigahm Mahzibahm, kà Pirschukohkus, Kesberes un Wihnakohkus pareisi buhs apgraisiht un labbi audsinaht;…
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Chimpanzees surviving in a fragmented high‐altitude forest landscape of the Congolese Albertine Rift
2021
This paper documents a community of eastern chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii Giglioli, 1872) inhabiting three relict forest fragments situated on the Lake Albert escarpment, down the Ituri highlands, of eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The area explored had a combined forested surface of ±18.15 km2 in 2017, shrinking by 1.2% per year between 2010 and 2015. Between 2015 and 2017, we found 160 chimpanzee nests along 37.6 km of pilot walks, some up to 2,000 m altitude. Another 123 nests logged along 6.7 km transects led to an estimate of chimpanzee density of 4.62 weaned individuals per square kilometer of forest habitat. Camera‐trap images and direct observations rev…
Qanāts and historical irrigated landscapes in Palermo’s suburban area (Sicily)
2020
La città di Palermo e la sua valle circostante sono un importante paesaggio storico irriguo, caratterizzato da strutture idrauliche sotterranee e da una lunga tradizione di sistemi di irrigazione ereditati dalla presenza islamica in Sicilia nel medioevo (IX-XI secolo). La “rivo- luzione verde” islamica ha radicalmente innovato i sistemi di irrigazione siciliani e questo portò all’introduzione e alla diffusione di nuove specie coltivate. Nell’area suburbana di Pa- lermo sono stati indagati 63 infrastrutture idrauliche e tunnel di scolo, classificati in 4 ca- tegorie: 1) qanāts; 2) qanāts ciechi; 3) pozzi collegati; 4) gallerie di scolo emergenti. Que- ste strutture, nonostante alcuni dubbi c…